Data Pipeline: from collection to publication

Prof Simon Dellicour • 2025-10-31

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Over the last years, we converged to certain habits in terms of study management. Although we do not consider those habits as gold-standard, they however correspond to practices that allow us to efficiently carry out several studies in parallel within our research team at the Spatial Epidemiology Lab (SpELL, https://spell.ulb.be/). Although it is thus important to insist on the fact that they only represent one example of research study management, the objective of this seminar will be to present these practices that could be of potential interest for some of the PhD students and post-doctoral researchers. The seminar will be organised to follow the workflow steps of a particular study such as its design and the definition of the research question or hypothesis to test, the implementation of analytical pipeline, the writing process, the submission process and publication strategy, and the communication around the study once it is published.

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Prof Simon Dellicour

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Simon Dellicour is a bioengineer graduated at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in 2009. He subsequently did a PhD under the supervision of Patrick Mardulyn (ULB, 2009-13), a first post-doc in the team of Oliver Pybus at the University of Oxford (2013-15), a second post-doc in the group of Philippe Lemey at the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven, 2015-18), and then joined the Spatial Epidemiology Lab in October 2018 for his third post-doc in the team of Marius Gilbert, ULB. In 2020, he became an FNRS Research Associate, a permanent academic position awarded by the Belgian Fonds National pour la Recherche Scientifique. Simon is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Rega Institute, Evolutionary and Computational Virology lab) and currently the director of the Spatial Epidemiology Lab.

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